Barrhead-Westlock was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first-past-the-post method of voting from 1993 to 2004.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1993 |
| District abolished | 2004 |
| First contested | 1993 |
| Last contested | 2001 |
History
editBoundary history
editBarrhead-Westlock was created from Barrhead, Westlock-Sturgeon and a small portion of Athabasca-Lac La Biche in 1993. Its largest communities were its namesake towns Barrhead and Westlock, as well as the town of Swan Hills. Its boundaries remained unchanged in the redistribution that took effect in 1997.[2]
The riding was replaced by Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock in the 2003 electoral boundary re-distribution, which covered the entire area of Barrhead-Westlock and a small portion of Redwater.[3]
Representation history
edit| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Barrhead-Westlock | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Barrhead 1971-1993 and Westlock-Sturgeon 1986-1993. | ||||
| 23rd | 1993-1997 | Ken Kowalski | Progressive Conservative | |
| 24th | 1997-2001 | |||
| 25th | 2001-2004 | |||
| See Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock electoral district from 2004-2019 | ||||
Barrhead-Westlock's only MLA was Ken Kowalski, who had already served as the Progressive Conservative member for Barrhead since 1979.
After the 1997 election, Kowalski became the 11th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
When Barrhead-Westlock was abolished for the 2004 election, Kowalski continued his political career, serving two more terms in the new riding of Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock as MLA and Speaker of the Assembly.
Election results
edit1993
edit| 1993 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,312 | 55.04% | – | ||||
| Liberal | Dale Greig | 3,309 | 28.85% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Harold Wharton | 1,076 | 9.38% | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Dale Harris | 561 | 4.89% | – | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | Adam Hauch | 143 | 1.25% | – | ||||
| Independent | Leonard Stahl | 79 | 0.58% | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 11,468 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 25 | – | – | |||||
| Registered electors / turnout | 16,439 | 69.91% | – | |||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1997
edit| 1997 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 6,195 | 60.66% | +5.62% | ||||
| Liberal | Dale Greig | 2,130 | 20.86% | -7.99% | ||||
| Social Credit | J. Harvey Yuill | 1,244 | 12.18% | +7.29% | ||||
| New Democratic | Joe Woytowich | 643 | 6.30% | -3.08% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 10,212 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 29 | – | – | |||||
| Registered electors / turnout | 16,778 | 61.04% | -8.87% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +6.81% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 1997 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
2001
edit| 2001 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Ken Kowalski | 7,183 | 69.31% | +8.65% | ||||
| Social Credit | Jeff Willerton | 1,352 | 13.05% | +0.87% | ||||
| Liberal | Laurie Hodge | 1,259 | 12.15% | -8.71% | ||||
| New Democratic | Suzanne Forbes | 569 | 5.49% | -0.81% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 10,401 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 38 | – | – | |||||
| Registered electors / turnout | 16,794 | 61.93% | +0.89% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +3.89% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Barrhead-Westlock Official Results 2001 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Election results for Barrhead-Westlock". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (June 1996). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (February 2003). "Proposed Electoral Division Areas, Boundaries, and Names for Alberta. Final Report to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta". Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
Further reading
edit- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.